hey guys i wanted to knw if one can create a reference to a reference and a pointer to a reference n cud one show me how to rite it in code....my theory is down below..tanx in advance
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int &&t;
int *&s;
plus is the time taken to access the last element im a vector propotional to the toral number of elements in a vector..tanx again
Elaborating on Peter87's answer, a reference is an alias for another variable. It is often implemented using a pointer, but that's an implementation detail. The concept of a reference is so you can give a new name to an existing variable. If you think of it this way, then it's obvious that
1. A reference to a reference just creates a 3rd name for the same variable:
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int a;
int &b=a;
int &c = b; // a, b, and c now all refer to the same variable.
2. A pointer to a reference is just a pointer to the variable to that it refers to.
Propotional to the total number of elements in a vector means it takes more time to access the last element in a vector if the vector is larger. Do you think this is the case? Why?